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A Few Commonsense Gun Laws

Authored by Christopher A. “Kip” Crofts JD, edited by S. L. Metzger MFA

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Christopher A. “Kip” Crofts, former U.S. Attorney of Wyoming, former soldier, judge, police officer, and expert on guns and ammunition, examines the gun laws of the United States. He dissects their history and effectiveness while providing first-hand examples and engaging stories to demonstrate the ways in which these laws do nothing to end gun violence in the U.S. He provides in-depth discussions of many kinds of guns, including short-barreled guns and “assault” weapons, and why certain ones were banned. He details the Assault Weapons Ban, the 1968 Gun Control Act, the NICS system, universal background checks, the 1934 National Firearms Act, Gun-Free School Zones, Red-Flag Laws, and others. Further, he discusses why these bans have done nothing to curb the violence and provides a common sense approach to reduce violence without infringing on the rights of law-abiding gun owners.

Reggie and the Hot Water Heater

Authored by Susan Metzger

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As Reggie’s mother adjusts the hot and cold water for Reggie’s daily bath, Reggie asks where the hot water comes from. After her bath, Reggie’s mother takes her into their spooky basement to meet their hot water heater. At first Reggie imagines all sorts of scary images of it, but over time, she develops a special relationship with this new friend until one day when the hot water coming out of the spigot is no longer hot.

Spirit Dogs: Life Between Lives

Authored by Susan Kelleher

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Winner of the Gold Honoree Award
Mom’s Choice Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction

This story continues where Spirit Dogs: Heroes In Heaven left off, with Ivan in Dog Heaven, fraught with despair at being separated from his beloved Sarah—until he is put in charge of five new arrivals and discovers that he can visit Sarah whenever he chooses. Thus begins Ivan’s adventure as a leader of a group and a huge sense of self-doubt that causes him to be sent on two dangerous missions to Dog Hell.

The group’s purpose, together, is to discover what it means to be a “whole dog,” what they learned in their previous lives, and what they still need to learn in order to become “whole.” The group consists of Beauregard, an arrogant show Poodle; Murphy, a timid, shivering Spaniel-mix; Jolly, a big, white family pet; Carl, a Lhasa Apso who lived with a pair of psychoanalysts near Central Park; and Stealth, a fighting pit-bull terrier.

• 5.5″ x 8.5″
• 248 pages
• Softcover

Spirit Dogs: Heroes Return

Authored by Susan Kelleher

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This is the third book in the Spirit Dogs Trilogy. The group of five dogs is back on Earth, living in the same neighborhood. Ivan is destined to become a search and rescue dog of such magnitude that he will take the leadership position in Dog Heaven. He and his neighbor dogs find themselves once again facing the evil forces that they encountered in the form of Garmr, the leader of Dog Hell in Spirit Dogs: Life Between Lives. Readers follow Ivan’s adventures with the reincarnated dog spirits that he grew to love in Dog Heaven as they, together, face an abusive father in one dog’s home and Ivan’s training as a handicapped FEMA I service dog, all of which lead to his ultimate test.

• 5.5″ x 8.5″
• 356 pages
• Softcover

Mountain Woman Mountain Beast

Authored by Susan Metzger
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“Sheila is a 44-year-old single mom who lives near Molybdenum Mountain Ski Resort, where she works in the transportation department. But in the book’s first chapter, Sheila undergoes a dramatic change: An alien light appears while she’s alone in the resort garage and offers her one wish. . . . Flummoxed and still possessing her human mind and speech capabilities, Sheila reaches out to her co-worker (and occasional fling) Kurt, who eventually overcomes his shock to help her get home. . . . Sheila attempts to blend in with the crew while Kurt, her friend Blaise, her psychoanalyst, Roger, and her son, Peter, are brought into the loop one by one to try to understand what’s happened. . . . This tale presents a powerful premise . . .” — Kirkus Reviews

• 413 pages

Two Boys

Authored by Susan L Metzger

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C.K., a man on death row for killing his child lover, and Johnnie, now a psychiatrist, relive their childhood friendship. Both were victims of a child pornography cult that operated out of their daycare center in 1983. They are single children of two very different sets of parents and just happen, in mid-childhood, to become neighbors in rural Indiana. One boy relishes some of the daycare memories; the other has repressed everything, but his occasional flashbacks unsettle his best friend. A third boy, an interloper who is still involved with the perpetrators, instills rivalry among the two, but this anguish binds C.K. and Johnnie even further. The voluptuous Cross-Eyed Ladonna and an older bi-sexual neighbor create confusion and guilt as the two boys grapple with themselves as sexual beings. Love, laughter, perceptiveness, and wanting to do the right thing entwine the two boys in deepening friendship.

• 6″ x 9″
• 402 pages
• Softcover

COMING SOON: Bertie and Pip

Authored by Susan Metzger

This novel follows Bertie Hoppesch from the time she’s four years old and believes that her storybook horses and the ones in 1950s TV westerns talk to her. Her emotionally-distant mother enjoys frightening her, although she has a loving brother and father. As readers follow her through childhood, we leap ahead to 1976 when Bertie is a 28-year-old graduate student who falls in love with Peter, one of the program’s psychology instructors. Does she dare tell him that her current horse, who Peter rides on occasion, also talks to her? She is aware of her “affliction” but is cautious who she tells about it. Frank Clark, a co-worker seems a likely confidante, and we watch as Bertie’s struggle unfolds.